The Pleasures Of Horror

Author : Matt Hills
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0826458874

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The Pleasures of Horror by Matt Hills Pdf

Pleasures of Horror is a stimulating and insightful exploration of horror fictions—literary, cinematic and televisual—and the emotions they engender in their audiences. The text is divided into three sections. The first examines how horror is valued and devalued in different cultural fields; the second investigates the cultural politics of the contemporary horror film; while the final part considers horror fandom in relation to its embodied practices (film festivals), its "reading formations" (commercial fan magazines and fanzines) and the role of special effects. Pleasures of Horror combines a wide range of media and textual examples with highly detailed and closely focused exposition of theory. It is a fascinating and engaging look at responses to a hugely popular genre and an invaluable resource for students of media, cultural and film studies and fans of horror.

Author : Isabel Cristina Pinedo
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438416168

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Recreational Terror by Isabel Cristina Pinedo Pdf

In Recreational Terror, Isabel Cristina Pinedo analyzes how the contemporary horror film produces recreational terror as a pleasurable encounter with violence and danger for female spectators. She challenges the conventional wisdom that violent horror films can only degrade women and incite violence, and contends instead that the contemporary horror film speaks to the cultural need to express rage and terror in the midst of social upheaval.

Author : Marion Gymnich
Publisher : V&R Unipress
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783862347759

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The Pleasures and Horrors of Eating by Marion Gymnich Pdf

Browsing through books and TV channels we find people pre-occupied with eating, cooking and competing with chefs. Eating and food in today's media have become a form of entertainment and art. A survey of literary history and culture shows to what extent eating used to be closely related to all areas of human life, to religion, eroticism and even to death.In this volume, early modern ideas of feasting, banqueting and culinary pleasures are juxtaposed with post-18th- and 19th-century concepts in which the intake of food is increasingly subjected to moral, theological and economic reservations. In a wide range of essays, various images, rhetorics and poetics of plenty are not only contrasted with the horrors of gluttony, they are also seen in the context of modern phenomena such as the anorexic body or the gourmandizing bête humaine.It is this vexing binary approach to eating and food which this volume traces within a wide chronological framework and which is at the core not only of literature, art and film, but also of a flourishing popular culture.

Author : James B. Twitchell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Art
ISBN : UVA:X000972323

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Dreadful Pleasures by James B. Twitchell Pdf

Dreadful Pleasures offers a lively look at those stories that make our hair stand on end--their persistence in our culture, their manifestations in art, and our need for the frissons they provide. James Twitchell traces our fascination with horror from the cave paintings at Lascaux to the "slasher" movies today. Twitchell finds that three particular stories have had a special resonance in our culture: the bloodsucker (Dracula), the deformed creature (Frankenstein), and the transformation monster (The Wolfman, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde). Why have these stories persisted to the point of becoming mythic and to the exclusion of others? Whatever happened to the Phantom of the Opera or the Hunchback of Notre Dame or the Creature from the Black Lagoon? Using a psychoanalytic approach, Twitchell argues that the stories we seek out and preserve are th ones that carry certain information as well as horror. These myths, he contends, warn their adolescent audiences of the dangers of careless sexual behavior: they seem to say--subliminally--that sex itself is not horrible, but sex with certain people is. Whether discussing the engravings of William Hogarth or The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Twitchell is consistently insightful, provocative, and entertaining. Film buffs and scholars literary critics and devotees of the Gothic novel will all welcome this study. About the Author: James B. Twitchell is Professor of English at the University of Florida, Gainesville. His previous books include GThe Living Dead: The Vampire in Romantic Literature and Romantic Horizons: Aspects of the Sublime in English Poetry and Painting.

Author : André Loiselle
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781785271304

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Theatricality in the Horror Film by André Loiselle Pdf

The horror film generally presents a situation where normality is threatened by a monster. From this premise, Theatricality in the Horror Film argues that scary movies often create their terrifying effects stylistically and structurally through a radical break with the realism of normality in the form of monstrous theatricality. Theatricality in the horror fi lm expresses itself in many ways. For example, it comes across in the physical performance of monstrosity: the overthe-top performance of a chainsaw-wielding serial killer whose nefarious gestures terrify both his victims within the film and the audience in the cinema. Theatrical artifice can also appear as a stagy cemetery with broken-down tombstones and twisted, gnarly trees, or through the use of violently aberrant filmic techniques, or in the oppressive claustrophobia of a single-room setting reminiscent of classical drama. Any performative element of a film that flaunts its difference from what is deemed realistic or normal on screen might qualify as an instance of theatrical artifice, creating an intense affect in the audience. This book argues that the artificiality of the frightening spectacle is at the heart of the dark pleasures of horror.

Author : Brigid Cherry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134049394

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Horror by Brigid Cherry Pdf

In this Routledge Film Guidebook, audience researcher and film scholar Brigid Cherry provides a comprehensive overview of the horror film and explores how the genre works. Examining the way horror films create images of gore and the uncanny through film technology and effects, Cherry provides an account of the way cinematic and stylistic devices create responses of terror and disgust in the viewer.

Author : Xavier Aldana Reyes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317748793

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Horror Film and Affect by Xavier Aldana Reyes Pdf

This book brings together various theoretical approaches to Horror that have received consistent academic attention since the 1990s – abjection, disgust, cognition, phenomenology, pain studies – to make a significant contribution to the study of fictional moving images of mutilation and the ways in which human bodies are affected by those on the screen on three levels: representationally, emotionally and somatically. Aldana Reyes reads Horror viewership as eminently carnal, and seeks to articulate the need for an alternative model that understands the experience of feeling under corporeal threat as the genre’s main descriptor. Using recent, post-millennial examples throughout, the book also offers case studies of key films such as Hostel, [REC], Martyrs or Ginger Snaps, and considers contemporary Horror strands such as found footage or 3D Horror.

Author : Carol J. Clover
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780691166292

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Men, Women, and Chain Saws by Carol J. Clover Pdf

Examining the popularity of low-budget cinema, particularly slasher, occult, and rape-revenge films, the author argues that, while such films have been traditionally understood as offering only sadistic pleasure to their mostly male audiences, in actuality they align spectators not with the male tormentor but with the females being tormented--particularly the slasher movie's "final girls"--Who endure fear and degradation before rising to save themselves.--Adapted from publisher description.

Author : Stephen Prince
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004-02-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813542577

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The Horror Film by Stephen Prince Pdf

In this volume, Stephen Prince has collected essays reviewing the history of the horror film and the psychological reasons for its persistent appeal, as well as discussions of the developmental responses of young adult viewers and children to the genre. The book focuses on recent postmodern examples such as The Blair Witch Project. In a daring move, the volume also examines Holocaust films in relation to horror. Part One features essays on the silent and classical Hollywood eras. Part Two covers the postWorld War II era and discusses the historical, aesthetic, and psychological characteristics of contemporary horror films. In contrast to horror during the classical Hollywood period, contemporary horror features more graphic and prolonged visualizations of disturbing and horrific imagery, as well as other distinguishing characteristics. Princes introduction provides an overview of the genre, contextualizing the readings that follow. Stephen Prince is professor of communications at Virginia Tech. He has written many film books, including Classical Film Violence: Designing and Regulating Brutality in Hollywood Cinema, 19301968, and has edited Screening Violence, also in the Depth of Field Series.

Author : Gary Svehla,Susan Svehla
Publisher : Midnight Marquee PressInc
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1887664041

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Son of Guilty Pleasures of the Horror Film by Gary Svehla,Susan Svehla Pdf

Author : Paul Wells
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1903364000

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The Horror Genre by Paul Wells Pdf

A comprehensive introduction to the history and key themes of the genre. The main issues and debates raised by horror, and the approaches and theories that have been applied to horror texts are all featured. In addressing the evolution of the horror film in social and historical context, Paul Wells explores how it has reflected and commented upon particular historical periods, and asks how it may respond to the new millennium by citing recent innovations in the genre's development, such as the "urban myth" narrative underpinning Candyman and The Blair Witch Project. Over 300 films are treated, all of which are featured in the filmography.

Author : Yvonne Leffler
Publisher : Almqvist & Wiksell International
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9122018999

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Horror as Pleasure by Yvonne Leffler Pdf

Author : Dominic Lennard
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781438453309

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Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors by Dominic Lennard Pdf

Examines the complexities and contradictions that arise when the monsters in the movies are children. Since the 1950s, children have provided some of horror’s most effective and enduring villains, from dainty psychopath Rhoda Penmark of The Bad Seed (1956) and spectacularly possessed Regan MacNeil of The Exorcist (1973) to psychic ghost-girl Samara of The Ring (2002) and adopted terror Esther of Orphan (2009). Using a variety of critical approaches, including those of cinema studies, cultural studies, gender studies, and psychoanalysis, Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors offers the first full-length study of these child monsters. In doing so, the book highlights horror as a topic of analysis that is especially pertinent socially and politically, exposing the genre as a site of deep ambivalence toward—and even hatred of—children. Dominic Lennard is Associate Lecturer in the Centre for University Pathways and Partnerships at the University of Tasmania, Australia.

Author : Kate Williams
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443404228

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Pleasures Of Men by Kate Williams Pdf

Spitalfields, 1840. Catherine Sorgeiul is nineteen and lives with her uncle in a rambling house in London’s East End. Sheltered and nervous, she has few companions and little to occupy the days beyond her own colourful imagination. But then a murderer strikes the city, ripping open the chests of young girls and stuffing hair into their mouths to resemble a beak, leading the press to christen him the Man of Crows. Catherine becomes obsessed with the grim crimes, and as she devours the news, she discovers she can channel the voices of the dead . . . and comes to believe she will eventually channel the Man of Crows himself. The murders continue to incite panic in the city, and Catherine gradually realizes she has put herself in the centre of a deadly trap of sexual obsession, deceit and betrayal. Elegant, mysterious and thrilling, The Pleasures of Men reveals the dark, beating heart of 19th-century London, where corruption and desperate desires lurked under a serene surface.

Author : Gary J. Svehla
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1644300117

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Guilty Pleasures of the Horror Film by Gary J. Svehla Pdf